Siler City Resident To Protest Against Non-American Workers

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SILER CITY — Like many communities, Siler City has watched its Hispanic population grow in recent years. For at least one man, that immigration has reached a boiling point. He has planned a controversial protest at City Hall on Saturday.

Richard Vanderford, who runs a Siler City service station, declined to talk to WRAL about his beliefs.

Vanderford has received permission from the city to express his beliefs at a demonstration in front of City Hall on Saturday.

In Vanderford's written request for the permit, he wants to protest the "unchecked immigration of large numbers of unassimilable non-American workers into Chatham County and Siler City."

"One of the main problems I see is the influx of a high number of Hispanics are filling our schools up, and they're not providing the tax base to help pay for all those seats they're taking," Buckner says. "This is not a racist community. It's just, we believe in fairness."

Due to the controversial nature of the protest, police are not taking any chances. Security will include the entire Siler City police force as well as members of the Chatham County Sheriff's Department and Highway Patrol.